The modern girl doesn’t need a man. Men hold you back and let you down. A job doesn’t.
Valerie Roper in The Tennis Party by Madeline Wickham (p. 245)
Do you ever notice how all the self-sacrificing women in history, Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, can’t think of any others, they all die alone. The men on the other hand get so much fuzz, it’s crazy.
It’s an unfair world.
House – TB or Not TB (S02E04)